Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection
Thu Oct 22
Utopian visions across centuries
This event is in the past.It took place on August 13, 2026 at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Drama Film
Star performerFilm Screening – “Red Desert”
August 13 at 7pm
Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley
🎬"Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity." (Time)
🎨BAMPFA's gift shop is small but fun
🚋Better to take public transit than hunt for parking
Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film projects bleak beauty onto industrial landscapes, following Monica Vitti through a poisoned world that feels unsettlingly contemporary. The 4K restoration makes every frame of this 1964 environmental apocalypse hit harder.
Art house film
Environmental themes
Monica Vitti
Classic cinema
Drama Film
Star performerFilm Screening – “Red Desert”
August 13 at 7pm
Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley
🎬"Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity." (Time)
🎨BAMPFA's gift shop is small but fun
🚋Better to take public transit than hunt for parking
Michelangelo Antonioni's first color film projects bleak beauty onto industrial landscapes, following Monica Vitti through a poisoned world that feels unsettlingly contemporary. The 4K restoration makes every frame of this 1964 environmental apocalypse hit harder.
Art house film
Environmental themes
Monica Vitti
Classic cinema
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- Art house film
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- Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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